Dewalt Dw735 Planer
Each piece of wood was started at the first roller of the planer and we left our hands off the sample until it stopped past the outfeed roller. Next blue chalk powder was rubbed onto the last 6” of the board in order to make the snipe condition stand out visually. Most planers have two internal knives that revolve and cut wood. Regardless of the design, all planer knives bolt to a heavy, spinning component called the cutterhead. Most benchtop planer knives are not designed to be re-sharpened, and that’s a good thing because it makes them easy to deal with. Renewing blades is simply a matter of unbolting the old ones and either flipping them around or replacing them with new, then bolting everything together again.
The flexible hose goes to a 4” sewer and drain 45 degree PVC fitting. From there a short section of 4” pipe is used with the bell end on one side. A regular pillow case is then secured to the pipe with a bungee cord. Even with the bag full the planer has no problem shoving more chips into the bag and slightly compressing what is in there. All the junctions in the flexible hose and PVC are all slip connections. I don’t use mine that often and after two years im on my third set of blades.
There are two gauges on the DW735 and they are both easy to read and use. The removal gauge shown above shows how much thickness will be removed but it also offers a handy chart suggesting the maximum to remove per pass based on the width of the board. The thickness gauge shown on the right shows the total final thickness that the board will be after passing through the planer. It didn’t take me long to zero in on one particular planer and that was the DEWALT DW735.
Thickness planers adjust the thickness of a board, while jointers ensure that a board is flat across its width and length on one side. You can use a jointer to adjust the thickness of a board, though it will be less accurate and possibly take longer than with a benchtop planer. You cannot, however, use a benchtop planer to flatten a board across its length. A benchtop planer can bring added value to a woodworking workshop, but you may still have some questions about this tool’s best use and operation. Ahead, answers to some of the most common questions about benchtop planers.
We might take and old set and give it a go for the heck of it like Rick is going to do. The 734 has held up well in our very humid Florida swamp environment and we have had fun using it to surface and dimension lumber for lots of different projects. We spent more for this tool than any other tool we own, and it paid for itself with its first planking job. The planer comes with a dust hood that works well with a properly sized shop-vacuum hose attached.
What you should know though is that the Dewalt DW735 and the Dewalt DW735X are basically the same thickness planer. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. We ran several different species of hardwoods through including ash, reclaimed oak, and mahogany. The planer worked remarkably well and at 15 amps, it had plenty of power to pull through and plane each hardwood without any hesitation. We planed nearly 70ft of 2-inch mahogany to 1-1/2 inch without overloading the system at all.
On the 734 you push a bar up and down to engage and disengage the lock. Personally I don’t find it arduous to manually deal with the carriage lock on my 734. I also haven’t seen the carriage lock make much difference with snipe. For me, snipe prevention has mostly been a matter of supporting the wood on the way in and the way out of the planer. One surface planer tip I use for accurate thickness pointer adjustment . Plane a 2′ board, cut off the snipe, cut into 4 pieces(3″+/-) and using a scale/caliper, a 3/4″ setting should yield 3″ stacked, exactly!
The manufacturer uses quality build materials, and it also offers good customer support. I watched many a video, compare to other planers, and chose dewalt Hand tools the Dewalt 735. I had used one in a woodcraft class and really liked it. I ordered the whole package with the stand and it works very well.
To answer your question about my dust collector, I have a 1.5 HP JDS DustForce single stage dust collector and it handles the planer very well. It’s extremely important that the in-feed and out-feed tables are level in order to have consistent and representative tests. The as-shipped accuracy of the tables varied between the different models.We adjusted the in-feed and out-feed tables separately and then checked for level across the entire machine. The worst measured vertical deviation from flat at the edge of the outfeed table nearly 1/8” above the surface of the planer. All of the machines except the DEWALT DW735X needed minor adjustments to reach a level surface. Ultimately the surface finish is really important, especially if the finish reduces the time to prepare the work piece of paint, stain and or clear finishes.
The Interna-Lok head clamp holds the workpiece in place better than standard rollers, minimizing snipe. Though the 2012NB doesn’t have a built-in dust collection port, dewalt Hand tools you can buy an attachment separately. The best benchtop planers have dust ports that attach to a shop vacuum or dust collection system to minimize the mess.